Rosamunde set to open a new location in Brooklyn

The counter at the original Rosamunde location, serving sausages to San Francisco's Lower Haight neighborhood. (Trey Bundy/The Chronicle)

Rosamunde‘s sausages are turning transcontinental.

In the next week or two, Brooklyn’s hippest enclave could be home to the newest Rosamunde Sausage Grill when the restaurant opens its doors at 285 Bedford Ave. in Williamsburg.

Owner Josh Margolis already runs the original Lower Haight location and its successor in the Mission, and has plans for a new branch in Oakland with a tentative opening date in October.

But when the opportunity to expand to New York City arose in May, Margolis jumped on it.

“It’s all been very fast,” Margolis said by phone from New York as he stood in the soon-to-be restaurant. “We had been thinking about expanding beyond the Bay Area and weren’t really going to right now, but we had an opportunity. We came here and decided we really liked the neighborhood.”

The 1400-square-foot location will have a full bar with 18 to 20 seats where patrons can sip 24 kinds of beer and 4 kinds of wine alongside a range of cocktails and house-made sodas. And, of course, the sausages themselves: Margolis said some of the familiar San Francisco varieties will appear as well as local links from Manhattan and Brooklyn.

“I lived in New York 20 years ago and Brooklyn wasn’t a place I would go,” Margolis said. “And now Brooklyn — there’s so many neighborhoods here that are just progressive, jumping, places are opening, a lot to do and see. Young people are living here. I’m from California, and once you get here you realize that if you ever wanted to live somewhere besides San Francisco, Brooklyn’s a good choice.”

Margolis said the crew is still scurrying to get the place ready and that an official opening date hasn’t been set yet though he expects it to be in the next week or two.